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RealUptime Monitor vs Checkly
Checkly is a code-first monitoring platform built natively on Playwright: browser checks, multistep checks, and imported Playwright test suites all run as production monitors, priced by monthly check-run volume across four tiers. RealUptime Monitor checks uptime, TLS/domain expiry, DNS, TCP ports, and cron heartbeats, priced by monitor count with on-call rotations and a status page in the same account.
Real-browser (Playwright) checks
Don’t have
not offered; RealUptime checks HTTP(S), TCP, TLS, DNS, and cron heartbeats, not rendered browser sessions
Have
native Playwright engine runs actual Chromium, Firefox, or WebKit; existing Playwright test suites import directly as monitors, per Checkly's own product page
Free tier
Have
10 monitors, all 4 regions, $0/mo
Have
Hobby plan: 10 uptime monitors, 1,000 browser check runs and 10,000 API check runs a month, 6 locations, 1 user, $0/mo
Pricing model
Have
flat monthly price per tier by monitor count: Free, Growth ($28.99/mo), Scale ($78.99/mo)
Partial
priced by monthly check-run volume, not a flat per-monitor count: Starter $24/mo (3,000 browser, 25,000 API runs), Team $64/mo (12,000 browser, 100,000 API runs), both usage-capped
Check interval minimum
Have
1 minute on Free and Growth, 30 seconds on Scale
Partial
2 minutes on Hobby; 1 minute on Starter ($24/mo); 30 seconds on Team ($64/mo); 1 second only on Enterprise
Regions checked per run
Have
4 named regions checked and shown together on every check, every tier including Free
Partial
6 public locations on Hobby and Starter; the full 22+ location pool is Team and above, and simultaneous multi-region checks specifically require Checkly's parallel-scheduling option rather than its round-robin default, per Checkly's own blog announcement
Monitor types beyond HTTP(S)
Partial
TCP and TLS port checks, DNS record checks, and heartbeat/cron push monitoring, plus HTTP(S) endpoints
Partial
API and browser checks with Playwright, plus multistep checks and heartbeat monitoring; no DNS or TCP port checks named on its product pages
On-call rotations and escalation policies
Have
rotations, escalation policies, and acknowledgement on Growth and Scale; pages by email, Slack, webhook, or your PagerDuty, with no phone or SMS paging of its own
Partial
SMS and phone-call alerting are included from the Team plan ($64/mo); no rotation scheduling or escalation-policy builder is named on its pricing or feature pages
Public status page
Have
unlimited status pages, custom domain, on Growth and Scale
Have
1 status page with 25 services on Starter ($24/mo); 10 status pages with 50 services on Team ($64/mo); none on the free Hobby plan
Status-page subscriber notifications
Have
every tier including Free
Partial
50 status page subscribers on Starter; not offered on the free Hobby plan
Team access
Have
owner, admin and responder roles
Partial
1 user on Hobby; 3 users on Starter ($24/mo); 10 users on Team ($64/mo)
Data retention
Not published
retention window is not published as a marketed tier feature
Partial
7 days on Hobby and Starter; 30 to 180 days on Team and Enterprise, per Checkly's pricing page
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For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.